Curio Barbasetti di Prun

Curio Barbasetti di Prun (12 March 1885-1962) was the Governor of Italian Montenegro from 13 July to 10 September 1943, succeeding Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and a general of Fascist Italy during World War II.

Biography
Curio Barbasetti di Prun was born on 12 March 1885 in Orsara, Italy to a noble family. He became a military attache to France and in 1936 was made a Brigadier-General of the Royal Italian Army, and by September 1939 he was in command of the Italian 19th Infantry Division in Tirane, Italian Albania. On 3 March 1942, Barbasetti di Prun replaced Gastone Gambara as Chief-of-Staff of the High Command of North Africa, and on 13 July 1943 he was made Governor of Montenegro. He was arrested by Nazi Germany after Italy signed an armistice with the Allied Powers, and he was liberated by the Soviet Union at the end of the war in 1945, being released from the Red Army in October of that year. He died in 1962.